Hal Finney’s Wife Fran Activates Her Husband’s Twitter Account to Protect It From ‘Being Purged’ by Elon Musk
Dec17

Hal Finney’s Wife Fran Activates Her Husband’s Twitter Account to Protect It From ‘Being Purged’ by Elon Musk

Roughly seven days ago the owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, disclosed that the social media platform planned to purge 1.5 billion Twitter names if they were inactive or the accounts haven’t logged in for years. After the statement, bitcoiners grew concerned that the now-deceased computer scientist Hal Finney’s Twitter account would be terminated. It seems that since then, Finney’s wife Fran Finney has taken over Hal’s social media account...

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Bahamas Corrections Commissioner Says FTX Co-Founder Bankman-Fried Is in ‘Good Spirits’ in the Prison Sick Bay
Dec17

Bahamas Corrections Commissioner Says FTX Co-Founder Bankman-Fried Is in ‘Good Spirits’ in the Prison Sick Bay

According to local reports, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is in “good spirits” and is being kept in the maximum security unit in the sick bay. SBF is held in custody at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDOCS), a jail called Fox Hill that is known for being filthy, and was accused of prison maltreatment last year. Acting commissioner of The Bahamas Corrections, Doan Cleare, detailed that SBF is in a dorm-style...

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Google’s Permanent Deindexing of Pirate Sites Spreads Across Europe
Dec17

Google’s Permanent Deindexing of Pirate Sites Spreads Across Europe

Determined to reduce overall piracy, the UK government first asked and then threatened Google over pirate sites appearing in its search results. A deal announced in 2017 revealed that Google would adjust its algorithms (pdf) to make pirate sites less easy to find. While this ‘code of conduct’ didn’t feature whole site deindexing, the MPA and BPI celebrated the ‘landmark’ agreement. Interestingly, Google itself had very little to say....

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How I wrote an open source video game for Open Jam in a weekend
Dec17

How I wrote an open source video game for Open Jam in a weekend

How I wrote an open source video game for Open Jam in a weekend Jim Hall Sat, 12/17/2022 – 03:00 Every year, Itch.io hosts Open Jam, a game jam where developers build an open source video game over a weekend. This year’s Open Jam ran from October 28th to October 31st. Open Jam is a friendly competition with no prizes, which makes it a great opportunity to try new things, experiment with a new game idea, or learn a new...

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Travel back in time with the mc file manager on Linux
Dec17

Travel back in time with the mc file manager on Linux

Travel back in time with the mc file manager on Linux sethkenlon Sat, 12/17/2022 – 03:00 In the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, there was a popular file manager for DOS called Norton Commander. It was beloved by many computer users of the day, but it fell out of favor as graphical file managers became the default. Fortunately for fans of the original commander, and those who missed out on the original, an open source file...

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